mingling

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Mingling means mixing with others or being together in a casual way.

When people are at parties, festivals, or other social events, they often like to mingle with each other. This can mean standing around and chatting with someone you don't know well, or dancing with friends. Some people even use the word "mingling" when describing meetings where colleagues from different departments get together to talk about projects and share ideas - it's a chance for them to mix and get to know one another better.

How common is "mingling"?

Word mingling is considered rare in modern English.
It has a balanced usage among all categories: speech, fiction, newspapers and academic texts.

Definitions

verb

To intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product
To associate or unite in a figurative way, or by ties of relationship
To cause or allow to intermarry
To intermarry.
To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate.
To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of.
To put together; to join.
To become mixed or blended.
To socialize with different people at a social event.

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noun

A mixture; a blending.

Real examples of "mingling" in context

Bryan Cranston on Winning an Emmy for The Studio & Trying Mushrooms for the First Time in Vegas

Interview

Mingling with the audience here and...

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